Hot Topics:

Call to arms about firearms

Updated:
12/18/2012 09:27:49 PM EST

Politicians actively court the gun lobby, which has outspent, by a margin of 4 to 1, efforts toward gun control. The gun lobby represents billions in profits for the gun manufactures. So let's get some things straight.

No one is coming to get your guns.

Assault rifles are not intended for sport. Splattering a groundhog at 500 yards with a high powered scope and assault rifle is not a sport.

Citizens who do not own guns have the right to be safe at the theater, mall and schools!

It is now the time for the NRA to step up and police, train and evaluate their own. Is this to say that the NRA is responsible for the mass killings that are now the norm? Not at all. After all, it takes a person to pull the trigger. And not all members of the NRA are convinced. In fact, more than 70 percent of NRA members believe that criminal background checks prior to purchasing a gun are a good thing.

We need education, training and testing in order to obtain a driver's license but not to own a gun. It is now time for the NRA to take the lead in curbing the new norm of mass killings in this country by endorsing the need to study this societal plague.

We are responsible for maintaining the culture that advocates and/or looks the other way in regards to violence in the media, movies, video games and schools. We purchase the assault rifles, ammo clips and bullet proof vests, just as though we are part of the game. We look the other way as our children play the games that desensitize them to violence.

Advertisement

We ignore the behavioral handicapped, the mentally ill.

Now is the time to "call to arms, all those able bodies," to put a stop to the animal carnage which has inflicted our great country!